Universal’s Cartoon World - Islands of Adventure Origins - UnBuilt Universal

[@ThemeParkStop]

A big thanks to everyone for suggesting this topic! Now what UnBuilt attractions would like me to talk about next?

[@Dippy]

Definitely LC

[@juanpabloho206]

Is any Harry Potter concept trashed?

[@scrambled5948]

Universal Dubai

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Dippy What’s LC?

[@Maniac536]

ALIENS 3D...the spiritual sequel to T2 3D! All the info I could find about it is some concept art on goddard’s old website and a complete script on the alien Anthology Blu-Ray boxed set

[@TheKairielise]

WB: “hmmmm.....and Six Flags, what do you have to offer?” Six Flags: “We’ll paint a coaster in Batman colors” WB: “....DEAL!!!”

[@XerosProductions_]

ik thats so dumb

[@JeffreyPiatt]

They also owned six flags.

[@Viking_Luchador]

would it be possible for Universal to sell the rights to Marvel attractions back to Disney, and then use the money to buy the rights to DC from Warner Bros. Discovery away from Six Flags?

[@TheKairielise]

@@Viking_Luchador why the hell would they want to do that?

[@Viking_Luchador]

@@TheKairielise because WBD knows they could make more money off of an immersive dark ride, than (as you said) a generic roller coaster with a corresponding color scheme

[@coasterking4994]

“We don’t need your f*cking characters” Harry Potter: *proceeds to take control of the entire resort* 😂

[@Maniac536]

Sid S is a notorious jerk when he wants to be. He was the same idiot who was dumb enough to sue Nintendo over character rights his company did not own. Idk if losing that case ever humbled him. I heard he’s personally a good guy (he was Steven Spielberg’s mentor)

[@NerdSquish]

This was an extremely interesting video! It truly breaks my heart as a Batman fan that we never got to see these DC attractions. I would have loved to see that Joker coaster!

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Yeah! Or maybe a Batman vs Joker coaster!

[@Codeman1115]

Or a joker funhouse type dark ride wow if only!

[@Spacycake]

Really wish we could have gotten the Batman vs Penguin ride, it sounded really cool.

[@thehandleisuseless]

I wonder why 6 flags don't do rides like this

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Six Flags should totally do that but instead with Batman vs The Joker!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I like the concept art. What a great idea. But I’m happy the resort ended up with Islands of Adventure which is an awesome park

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Same, but some other attractions for Seuss Landing and Toon Lagoon would definitely fit in with Islands of Adventure as well as some more Jurassic Park rides!

[@thefuture4527]

Maybe it was for the best

[@williambrown8249]

IOA is easily the best theme park in the US.

[@jinxglow6695]

As cool as the concept art is for the lands we never got, I love the way Islands of Adventure turned out. If they did use Warner’s Looney Toons and DC, they wouldn’t stand as much when so many other theme parks use those properties. You can only go to IOA for Marvel and Jay Ward characters.

[@jaydenchrist6152]

Um u can go to Disney Calafornia adventure for marvel but you can only go to Islands of adventure for j ward and popeye

[@xrpmx3759]

@@jaydenchrist6152 yeah but is marvel at California adventure real Marvel? Nope Marvel at Universal is the comic book version of the characters we a love which to be honest is the true version and how it should be

[@umutcam8001]

Universal

[@MoiveGuy24]

I wish they built the Batman and Penguin coaster and the whole DC comics land and looney toons, there both amazing concepts and the rides looked awesome 😁

[@annalisahartmann5661]

Batman vs Penguin and Roadrunner vs Wile E. Coyote both sound so cool.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

YEAH! I want those rides to happen at a new Six Flags park in Central Florida!

[@Person-wz6iy]

MEEP MEEP!

[@mburrill94]

When I was very young, I remember Bugs Bunny and the WB characters being at Six Flags' Great America near Chicago.

[@hubertberrum6242]

Great america used the looney tunes characters long before it became a six flags park

[@guillermogerban5797]

Once again, a fantastic video! This was very nicely done. Thanks, I really enjoyed it! As far as suggestions for the next video: I think it would be cool to learn about the MIB corner in USF. Wasn't Jurassic Park originally set for that corner, and then there were other concepts that were suggested before MIB? It would be awesome to get some great details on Universal's thought process of that area from Swamp thing to MIB. or maybe a video on the curse on KId Zone and all the canceled projects meant for that area. .... I'm sure whatever you decide to do next It will be great!!

[@ThemeParkStop]

Thanks! I’m definitely thinking about the KidsZone curse for one.

[@GregoryFiege]

Universal did get a little "last laugh" that kept most Marvel characters out of WDW.

[@jimbodeek]

But not Disneyland and DCA.

[@raidenstark315]

Search the agreement In the east universal owns them but in the west disney can use the characters Looks like the guardians are a grey area

[@jimbodeek]

@@raidenstark315 Any character that Universal DOESN'T use is fair game for Disney to use on the East Coast. Which means that there could be a chance that the Eternals will come to Disney World sooner or later... Ooh, and maybe we'll get to see Hyperion too!

[@raidenstark315]

@@jimbodeekyeah

[@williambrown8249]

And based on the abomination of the Spiderman "ride" that Disney introduced in LA and Paris, thank god it won't be coming to Orlando.

[@MackClark]

Awesome awesome video! I am still so sad that the Looney Tunes themed land was never built. And the Bat Wing and Penguin concept looked epic!

[@jaydenchrist6152]

Its spinburg fault

[@TheAlanWilcox]

honestly i am glad that this park was never built if anything Warner Bros needs to build its own theme park and install all of these rides from the scrapped concept art which i call Warner World

[@kevinbhieey9188]

Your coverage of the talks with Warner Bros was fascinating, but the convoluted history of these licenses could've been a self-contained video. (As Six Flags has the DC and Looney Toons licenses, I went down a Bugs Bunny hole to discover how Time Warner was even able to sell the license.) Some highlights: - Marriott's Great America, a two-chain park located in Illinois and California, was the original owner of the Looney Toons amusement park license. - Six Flags bought the Marriott's in Illinois in 1984, but NOT the one in California, which was odd since the Six Flags SOP was buying already-existing parks. They had gotten Magic Mountain in 1979 and, at the time, Marriott's was the only amusement park in all of Northern California, not counting the rinky-dink Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. (Six Flags would eventually buy Marine World-Marine World Africa USA-New Marine World Theme Park-Six Flags Marine World-Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in 2007, which Premier Parks was hired to run when it was just a zoo.) The California Great America was instead sold to the city of Santa Clara and Six Flags somehow ended up with the Looney Toons license. - Time Warner didn't enter the Six Flags picture until 1990 or so, when it started buying up Six Flags stock. It had a 50% stake in 1991 and 100% in 1993. The question here is why they did it. This was a period where media companies owning parks was all the rage. Paramount had just bought a bunch of parks. Universal Studios was expanding into Orlando. MGM had just teamed up with Disney for their own Studios park, though Disney's was a hot garbage rush job born from Michael Eisner stealing Universal's ideas and fast-tracking them in hopes that Universal would give up (there's another video for you!). Time Warner was merging and buying all kinds of companies, trying to keep up with the Evil Empire (Disney), so maybe this was a case of just keeping up with the Joneses. - Or maybe Time Warner was just interested in that Looney Toons license. As stated at the beginning of the video, Universal was already looking into a second Orlando park in 1991. They wouldn't have planned these elaborate Looney Toons and DC lands without talking to Time Warner first. Why waste all that time if the licenses weren't even available? This was the same year Time Warner started buying up Six Flags stock, so the timing seem very suspicious. Yes, Looney Toons characters were already all over the Six Flags parks, and Batman had just been introduced into several of them, so why would Time Warner want to throw all that away for one park in which they'd only have a single-digit percentage of the take? In 1993, Six Flags only had seven parks (I believe), so 8% of an Orlando park was easy money. Universal apparently only wanted the Batman and Superman franchises, so Six Flags would still have a stable of other superheroes to name rides after. And the success of Tiny Toon Adventures appeared to be leading Time Warner into a lucrative partnership with Steven Spielberg. Plucky Duck was coming in 1992 and Animaniacs in 1993, so all the Looney Toons attractions could just be rethemed to those characters that would be around forever! (Cough) ' - Time Warner got out of the amusement park business shortly after this deal fell apart. In 1998, Premier bought Six Flags, only five years after Time Warner had bought it. Which gives a little more credence to the idea that Time Warner only bought the company to get that Looney Toons license. Six Flags was sold to Premier Parks for under $2 billion, which was chump change to Time Warner at the time. We can't know who to blame, or even if we should. It would be great to have some of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time in Islands. Certainly Bugs and Company deserve better than what they are getting in the Six Flags parks, which is basically themeless flat rides. There are loads of Warner Bros characters - Bugs, Elmer, Daffy, Porky, Marvin, Tweety & Sylvester, Roadrunner & Wile E Coyote... - more deserving of quality attractions than Popeye or Dudley Do-Right. They're all more deserving than many of the characters over at the Disney parks, like Casey Jr, Gadget, Roger Rabbit, Monsters Inc, Cars, Remy, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Incredibles, Aerosmith, whoever is currently featured in that horrific Disney Jr show... I'd even argue their importance over Alice in Wonderland, the Little Mermaid, Mr Toad, Frozen, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, etc... but at least those characters have long literary careers before being used to sell merchandise. But what would we have lost? It looks like the Looney Toons land would have been mostly in Lost Continent's space, which means we would never have gotten Sindbad or Poseidon. DARN! While Poseidon's Fury had some great ideas, it never became a complete attraction, so maybe saving those ideas would've resulted in a better attraction down the road. But we also would've never gotten Dueling Dragons. Or all the theming in Lost Continent, which was the greatest theming in a theme park at that time. Moving even further into the future, what would've happened to Harry Potter? They certainly couldn't have taken over the Looney Toons land, or even put it into a park named Cartoon World. The obvious choice would've been to replace Jaws even earlier, which means both Harry Potter lands could've ended up in USF, meaning the Hogwarts Express would've been a motion simulator, if it existed at all. And there would certainly be no room for Hagrid's motorbikes. All the Harry Potter stuff being located in one park would not have been good for Cartoon World. The only "inexpensive" option would be to replace Toon Lagoon, which would mean getting rid of the only two water rides in the entire Resort AND a renaming of Cartoon World. Of course there was always the third gate... The DC side would've probably been an improvement over the Marvel version in both theme and ride selection. Dr Doom and Storm Force Accelatron would certainly not be missed, and the Batman/Penguin coaster would've been thematically better than Hulk, and might have been a great alternative to Dueling Dragons. But can you imagine a world without the Spider-Man ride? As cool as the Superman version seems, it was still not what Spider-Man turned into. MAYBE it would have eventually morphed into a Superman version of what we ended up with, but there's also a very good chance that our first form of this ride system would've been the far-inferior Transformers version. Also, most of this land and part of Looney Toons would have taken up the space that turned into Jurassic Park. While the world could've lived without the River Adventure on the East Coast, this ended up being the most pleasant land in the park, due to its jungle theme. And dinosaurs are always a plus. Besides, Jurassic Park was being built in Hollywood as a stand-alone ride, so it probably would've ended up next to Back to the Future over at USF. Which means no room for the fantastic Camp Jurassic or for the upcoming coaster. All things considered, I think Universal would've been far better off had they just ponied up the extra cash for Time Warner. When it opened, the three big coasters, the drop towers and the two flumes made Disney fans think of this as a park for teens. Furthermore, at the time Marvel characters weren't a selling point and the other cartoon characters were't big draws either. Due to this, and a bad marketing plan, the park performed poorly. Had Universal been able to advertise Batman, Superman and Bugs Bunny, Disneygoers would have been far more willing to try out the new park, which would've had way more family-friendly rides with these IPs. The other problem was its lack of attractions. The following year Universal added two flat rides to the park in an attempt to quell this line of thinking, but neither lived up to the theming surrounding them. The DC and Looney Toons lands not only would've brought more attractions to the lineup, but switching over to Jurassic Park and Lost Continent forced the Dr Seuss and Popeye lands to lose much-needed attractions. The Warner Bros lands also had shows planned, something this park still needs. Shows fill out a day better, and Cartoon World would've felt like a complete park from Day One. Then came 9/11, which only ensured IOA would remain in a holding pattern until it got the Harry Potter license. Had Cartoon World performed well upon opening, it would've weathered that recession better. With this park chugging along, and Hogsmeade lifting USF to great heights, chances are we'd already have the third gate, as Universal probably would've fast-tracked it so Diagon Alley could be its main selling point. WE COULD ALREADY BE RIDING UNIVERSAL MONSTERS RIDES!!! Sigh...

[@thewalkingdad68]

This was great! A welcome breath of fresh air! Thanks so much Alicia... you're the best theme park KZbin channel there ever was!

[@ThemeParkStop]

Thank you, Daniel! That’s very sweet of you to say.

[@LaDracul]

Whoah, there's a Harley Quinn FC at one of the WB parks?! Anyway, they did get "Harry Potter" and that is a WB property...

[@Maniac536]

FC? You mean Face Character? Yes that costume design is used several theme parks.

[@ThemeParkShark]

So good!!!!

[@ThemeParkStop]

Thank you!

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Indeed!

[@L83838]

Very

[@chubbs2067]

These type of brainstorm and planning builds of new rides/lands is so fascinating. Really enjoyed this video as it unearthed so much that I’d didn’t know about IoA.

[@JBThrills]

I really like this series, it’s very fascinating and cool to see what could’ve been, I actually kinda wish WB gave the rights to them because it could’ve been cool to see what they could’ve done with DC and looney tunes, they probably would’ve beaten six flags

[@carminecdinoproductions]

My idea for a Central Florida theme park with Warner Bros., DC Comics, and Cartoon Network characters would laid out like this! - DC Comics Attractions - Metropolis - Superman Flight coaster - Gotham City - Joker’s Madhouse - Batman vs Joker coaster - Various TBD attractions - Looney Tunes - Various TBD attractions - Tiny Toon Adventures - Animaniacs - Cartoon Network - Adventure Time - Steven Universe - The PowerPuff Girls - Ed, Edd n Eddy - Various TBD attractions - Other Warner Bros. Movies and Franchises - Mad Max - Inception - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Godzilla Monsterverse

[@TheAlanWilcox]

I Love it its will be Warner World and i have the same idea for the same Warner Bros Theme Park and Florida is definitely one of the locations planned in mind.

[@MovieEnforcer]

What about The Matrix?

[@Person-wz6iy]

I'm sad that we didn't get to see the Looney Tune land with BIG CHUNGUS!

[@Person-wz6iy]

Also I would like to see a Looney Tune land someday!

[@joelongpong3133]

There is one in Abu Dhabi uae

[@CreateArtwithChris]

Thank you for this awesome video! I was just talking about the IP changes yesterday. I need to show her this video, you explained things way better. 😂 thanks!

[@Pizzakong633]

Seeing all the concept art is great. The fact that we never got this proper DC land is such a shame

[@kevinfraser7815]

Some amazing work and research here team! Kept me engaged all the way through. Would’ve loved to see the looney tunes land.

[@madaction9373]

This is fantastic! Keep up the great work and love your channel!

[@bebobebo4407]

Had this been built, it would've been weird seeing Looney Tunes at a Universal park even though I think of the Looney Tunes as a WB cartoon.

[@himynameisnat]

I am so glad that, in some level, some of those ideas were able to see the light of day over in Abu Dhabi! It would have been so awesome to see them in Orlando as well! The Warner Park in Abu Dhabi is much more modest than the ideas you showed in this video (don't get me wrong, it is still an incredible park!).

[@IdeaBox-dk5vj]

Not gonna lie, I would have loved to visit this instead of Islands of Adventure. Don't get me wrong, IOA is still a good place, and some of the ideas were implemented quite well into their current state, but a world filled with Disney's rivals, especially WB, at Universal's Florida grounds would have enticed me much more than Adventureland if it took over the entirety of Disneyland.

[@ToonyKid]

Since you mentioned Tiny Toon Adventures, that reminds me… In March 2023, I had this idea of a Tiny Toons 4D ride where they go to space.

[@Angie2343]

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, EVERY toon from EVERY company loves each other.

[@80sDisneyFan]

That Loony Tunes land would've been really cool.

[@FIREBRAND38]

This was very well researched as well as impeccably organized and presented. Thanks!

[@richardhaywood8325]

I love looney toons! With everything getting reboots and shit I hope they can bring it back. Daffy and buggs are undefeated!

[@rickyraf1997]

This right here is the content we need, but not the one we deserve

[@dratelectasis]

That saw idea for Ripsaw falls would have been amazing. Why scrap it? And another thing, why aren't there EVER people in costumes in Toon Lagoon? I see it in all these ads but not once, in my 500+ times going, have seen one

[@ThemeParkStop]

I saw Rocky and Bullwinkle once in 2017!

[@baenanas6638]

Yes the little taste we got in the podcast got me so hype for this and i finally have time to watch it!

[@SPRidley]

I think this was talked on another channel like 1 or 2 years ago, but is funny to see like a lot of this theming ideas became part of the Warner Bros Park in Madrid, Spain. THE DC area idea is VERY similar, with the same planned buildings and everything, except for the rides inside being different (turning them into coasters with cool queues instead of universal level dark rides). The Looney Tunes area had a similar concept, though instead of Tiny Toons theres a small mix of Hanna Baberbera and Cartoon Network in the entrance. And of course, all this with sadly A LOT less budget, but some of the original concepts of the madrid park for this areas look even more similar to the Universal ideas (before Six Flags started to cut everything lol). The Batman stuntshow at the lake also looks eerily similar to the stunt show that the madrid park had in its first years, about Lethal Weapon instead of Batman.

[@eva0022]

This was amazing, I always wanted to hear about cartoon world and how it was going to be like, heck if we get a fourth theme park it would be this 😂

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I want a Godzilla ride for Universal Studios Florida!

[@LalakiProductions]

We almost got one in the Japan Pavilion at Epcot.

[@scottin360]

Really great video Alicia! Cartoon World is an interesting what if scenario. Although, I think things worked out for the better with Marvel Superhero Island and the rest of IOA!

[@ABritTravels]

Great, detailed video! Really interesting to hear these plans!

[@deltonabf]

Loved this video. Great job, beautifully edited

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I want a cool Godzilla monster area for either Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure or Epic Universe!

[@4952b]

Too bad about Cartoon World, but it's great to know that Dr. Seuss, Jay Ward, King Features, and the idea of a super hero land managed to make the final cut for Islands of Adventure. Even Comic Strip Lane ended up merging with Toon Lagoon, feeling like an unofficial main street for the Toon Lagoon. Plus given that Comic Strip Lane, DC Comics, Dr. Seuss, and Toon Lagoon all started with stories, I'd say Cartoon World was destined to be Islands of Adventure sooner or later.

[@melaniewd8941]

This was such a great episode! ❤️

[@ianvinje8597]

oh boy this was uploaded on my birthday

[@nakkari100]

Awesome video. All those details are so cool

[@HarryHorrigan]

Always love your videos !

[@Frank-ed3db]

Wow the original plans would have been so much better!!!! It’s awesome now but having Looney Tunes and DC what an incredible idea!!!!!!!!

[@paul28177]

I was lucky to be part of the early access to this park... my biggest issue with the park is that the lands felt very small with not much going on in each of them... each area would have one main ride and then mostly shops with a few small rides. The most confusing area was the mythical area - the duelling dragons was an awesome ride but the surrounding area made no sense... I went again a few years later...i could see improvements but it still felt small. The hulk coaster and the Spider-Man ride were awesome... but the comic book world need a lot more. I’ve not been able to go since the Harry Potter world opened...but it’s a shame they didn’t make the other worlds as large and complex as the Harry Potter world

[@SteveKComedy]

A really detailed immersive DC world would be fantastic. Imagine a dark and gritty Gotham. Too bad Warner Bros just lends to IP to 6 flags, witch is just naming rights.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Maybe some attractions with the Peanuts characters would make their way to a Cedar Fair park in Florida!

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Maybe Toon Lagoon should include Universal cartoon characters and other characters!

[@englandportugal91]

This Looks Amazing! Thanks For Sharing! Take Care!

[@MrAlexwilbur]

Nice job on this video!

[@jaydenchrist6152]

Rip Cartoon world I wish that cam be there 4th park lil

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Now I want a Six Flags Park in Florida with DC Comics and Looney Tunes themed rides as well as other rides themed to Cartoon Network shows from Adventure Time and Steven Universe to Ed, Edd n’ Eddy, The PowerPuff Girls, Ben 10, and other Cartoon Network shows!

[@benl8413]

I'm glad we got IoA in the end, my #2 park in the world behind Tokyo DisneySea. Fascinating how the Warner cartoon lands pretty nuchy ended up becoming reality over at Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi

[@anamelessyoutuber1462]

I feel like the reason why that log ride didn't actually get the saw gag is because they knew that idiots would try to mess with the saw itself when they got close to it.

[@RIGiantsGuy]

Great info!! Alicia, you are awesome!!

[@JejblessAnointed]

Awesome and insightful video. I wonder with the Universal new theme park would they make a try at this again, Knowing Six Flags pretty much is going bankrupt, And going to close a majority of there parks. I wonder if they are in discussion with Warner Brothers. I know they already have a deal with Nintendo, I know this theme park is going to supposedly have a whole lot of land so what else is Universal up to.

[@jacobsimon452]

A truly fantastic video Alicia! With the rumors of Comcast acquiring Warner bros in 2024 this could become a reality!!!!

[@johngosbee5574]

SUGGESTION: any show that didn't make it on USF opening (as opposed to your "Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild West show, or the now ancient Animal Actors show) After reading Jerry Green's book, it really sunk in that "Universal" was NOT a theme park company, per se until early-mid 1980s. Their experience was enhancing practical effects to boost the centerpiece tram tour, and very interactive shows with near constant celebrity guests, and picnic tables.

[@JMCVO]

What's the music that starts at 3:11 ?

[@hansenguillaume972]

really great job !

[@youmadornahhh]

A giant Superman roller coaster and a cutting edge Batman dark ride. A DC Comics land has SO much potential.

[@shanewinsten1846]

Can’t wait to hear these story’s one day about epic universe

[@velociwyatt9080]

I would like a tiny toons kids zone in a theme park someday

[@Aftermath779]

If Universal Cartoon World was going to be built it would be basically a high quality Six Flags park.

[@DZstudios.]

Great episode

[@videosbyvangie0553]

Honestly would’ve never guessed Universal could even think of using Looney Tunes or DC since Six Flags uses these franchises. In fact Batman:Batwing Flyer. Exact name of a Six Flags coaster.

[@HeartlessRandomguy]

The double log concept for Dudley DooRight would have been so awesome. Also I think Looney Tunes/Tiny Toons would've been great for Universal

[@cookiemonster3605]

They should make the suessium its like a museum and shows all the books and history about dr seuss and status about the books

[@DryEyeBuilds]

For an idea for the next unbuilt, maybe you could talk about the Universal Florida tram-tour that they didn’t do because MGM studios copied them. I’m not sure if there’s any readily available information about it, but it would be interesting to see!

[@ThemeParkStop]

The tram tour at Universal Studios Florida was open for the park’s first five years. Yesterworld did a great video on it!

[@DryEyeBuilds]

I didn’t know that. Thank you for the video recommendation!

[@xtremexavier1359]

Just wondering if we would be able to get a update on super nintendo world because there's a lot that has happened

[@ThemeParkStop]

It’s almost done in Japan. But won’t be opening for a few months. No official word on an opening date has yet to be made. Nearly every detail of this land has been covered on the channel, including layouts for the rides, and a few videos about the interactive elements. A video for the future Donkey Kong ride will be made later, so stay tuned for that. You can see the most recent construction here: twitter.com/aliciastella/status/1265999653855735811?s=21

[@xtremexavier1359]

@@ThemeParkStop sweet thanks for an update, cant wait till it opens in japan!

[@ConekillerConfuzor]

Man that WB stuff all sounds incredible!

[@eduardodiazguasp8946]

Are there any further details on the original plans for the monsters land at islands of adventure? With how large the original lost continent (Merlinwood, Sinbad’s bazaar & the lost city), I’d be curious to know how ambitious were there original plans & what changed during brainstorming process.

[@Angie2343]

Almost ALL of the characters featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit would have been together. This would have been awesome! As we see in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, many characters from other animation studios live in Toontown. I feel bad that most of the non-Disney characters can't visit the Walt Disney World Resort. Why can't they? Don't all the citizens of Toontown love each other? :'(

[@haileyshannon7548]

Their creators don’t

[@Angie2343]

@@haileyshannon7548 I know.

[@jimdotbeep]

Most of this stuff is WAY better than what actually ended up in Universal Studios.

[@siddhartramotar8774]

Imagine ghosting Steven Spielberg!

[@KyaneTiger]

It might be a stretch, but I feel like the Batman dueling ride did come true to become Dragon Challenge. The way they described the near misses it seems they took that idea and applied it to Dragon.

[@isaiahsanders9418]

I Think Universal's Cartoon World Would've Been An Awesome Theme Park Parallel To Universal Studios Florida Theme Park's Movie Theme

[@Minocoaster93]

the batman and superman areas are look similar to the dc area in the parque warner madrid

[@jenuwine6306]

@11:00 "and other instances of Bugs outsmarting adversaries like Elmer Fudd" Bug Chungus the Ride CONFIRMED for Epic Universe????

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I wanna see all the original planned but scrapped attractions for Universal’s Islands of Adventure besides those for the Warner Bros. DC and Looney Tunes properties and Universal Monsters like some scrapped Toon Lagoon, Seuss Landing, and Jurassic Park attractions become fully realized and maybe Toon Lagoon can utilize the Nickelodeon Nicktoon properties and Universal’s own classic cartoon library!

[@reddragon8488]

Now i'm thinking if cartoon world was created how there going to do halloween horror nights in 2002,03,04 and 05 Also suggestion you should talk about universal hollywoodland the cancelled europe park of universal

[@andrewh4855]

Another great, informative and thorough video Alicia! 👍

[@JeffreyPiatt]

The irony is that NBC Universal Japan owns a whole library of Japanese Anime titles some co-owned with WB Japan. The Universal Japan Cool Japan event is based off there owned titles and licenced Anime for 4d theaters using the Spiderman ride tech. Recently Evangelion, Sailor Moon Crystal, and a Crossover between Godzilla and Evangelion were shown.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I love learning about this stuff ❤ #DisneyDiva ❤

[@juanpabloho206]

I would have loved to have the Looney Tunes on IOA, so sad... If they had built it, do you know where it would currently be?

[@ThemeParkStop]

According to the resort wide concept art it looked to be on the left side of the park, about where Marvel is now. Seuss Landing seems to be the only land that stayed in the same spot through all plans.

[@haileyshannon7548]

There is a Popeye Village, it’s in Malta and it’s the set of the 1980 movie and you can visit it.

[@AdamYJ]

I know he's fictional but I kind of feel bad for Woody Woodpecker. Universal had their own classic cartoon character who fit the more smart-alecky tone they wanted to go for and even after they got shot down by Warner Bros. he still doesn't have his own ride.

[@ThemeParkStop]

He has a kiddie coaster at Universal Studios Florida now. It’s got some funny jokes around the queue too.

[@JakeCoasters]

IOA is a huge improvement in every way

[@trey.morris]

someone please tell me what the background music is at 9:58 and why it’s so familiar

[@ThemeParkStop]

The song is called "Merrily We Go" by Stationary Sign, and is available from Epidemic Sound royalty free music company. All of the music in this episode is through them. Many KZbinrs use their service, so it's possible you heard it on another channel?

[@trey.morris]

@@ThemeParkStop Thank you so much!

[@SmartGoblin8]

Five star Documentary I didn't know I wanted. 👍 I thank you for it. (Rock)*( On! ) 🤘🤠

[@ThemeParkStop]

Thanks!

[@nickellfrancis1128]

Thank you Alicia for the video that brought back memories thanks stay safe

[@DwightLivesMatter]

That's a boy not a girl.

[@jimbodeek]

I wish I had Stewie's multiversal remote from Family Guy so I could travel to a universe where Cartoon World exists...

[@MrG024]

sounds a lot like the Warner Brothers themepark in Abu Dhabi!

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Yeah! Except, it doesn’t have certain movie franchises for most of its attractions...

[@philiproberts4101]

I am so glad these ideas do not come to fruition. What we got is so much better!

[@od3996]

how?

[@jaydenchrist6152]

@@od3996 cause cartoon world looked like something we already had at Disney world a Indoor and outdoor coaster like big Thunder mountain a fantasyland also we already have DC rides at six flags and we already have a et system ride at universal studios Florida and the old concept for Dudley do right was going to be like splash mountain so cartoon world would be one big copycat islands of adventure concept we have now is much better them cartoon world

[@44bthknuckles]

Lots of properties being used,they would of had both dc and marvel at that time.they have mgm,warner bros is huge,they also would have all hanna barbera cartoons,paramount and much more.